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There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.